Emile Gruppe. Emile Albert Gruppe was an American painter, known for impressionistic landscapes and Massachusetts coastal and marine paintings.
Emile Albert Gruppe was born 1896 in Rochester, New York. He lived the early years of his life in the Netherlands as his father, Charles P. Gruppe, painted with the Hague School of art and acted as a dealer for the Dutch painters in the United States.
The family returned permanently to the States around 1913 when rumblings of World War I were brewing. All of Emile's siblings established themselves in the arts, Paulo Mesdag as a cellist, Karl Heinrich as a sculptor, and Virginia Helena Gruppe as a watercolorist.
Gruppe studied at the National Academy in New York City and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. His artistic career began in 1915 but was briefly interrupted in 1917, when he spent a year in the United States Navy.
He made his permanent studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and became a member of the Cape Ann school of artists. Although Gruppe is best known for his variety of impressionistic landscapes, he also painted figures and portraits. His modern style was largely inherited from the French Impressionist Monet. Lily Pads, date and location unknown, one of Gruppe's landscapes, attests to Monet's influence; it is similar to some of the paintings in Monet's Water Lilies series. From 1940-1970, he ran the Gloucester School of Paintin
Emile Albert Gruppe was born 1896 in Rochester, New York. He lived the early years of his life in the Netherlands as his father, Charles P. Gruppe, painted with the Hague School of art and acted as a dealer for the Dutch painters in the United States.
The family returned permanently to the States around 1913 when rumblings of World War I were brewing. All of Emile's siblings established themselves in the arts, Paulo Mesdag as a cellist, Karl Heinrich as a sculptor, and Virginia Helena Gruppe as a watercolorist.
Gruppe studied at the National Academy in New York City and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. His artistic career began in 1915 but was briefly interrupted in 1917, when he spent a year in the United States Navy.
He made his permanent studio in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and became a member of the Cape Ann school of artists. Although Gruppe is best known for his variety of impressionistic landscapes, he also painted figures and portraits. His modern style was largely inherited from the French Impressionist Monet. Lily Pads, date and location unknown, one of Gruppe's landscapes, attests to Monet's influence; it is similar to some of the paintings in Monet's Water Lilies series. From 1940-1970, he ran the Gloucester School of Paintin
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